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One Dark Night

One Dark Night A long-lost (and thought to be destroyed) horror flick of the early 80s now somewhat restored and released on DVD, has got to be one of the weakest examples of the genre imaginable. You know you’re in trouble when the main villain is not even played by an ACTOR, but instead by […]

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One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest

One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest A movie that was made back in 1975 and features acting that to this day still leaves one in absolute awestruck bewilderment at just how magnificent it continues to be, this was only the second of three movies in history to win all five “major” Oscars (Picture, Actor, Actress, […]

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One Last Dance

One Last Dance Patrick Swayze’s status as one of the coolest movie stars of all time is pretty much preserved for the ages, but as his career wore on into the late 90s, he sadly saw his stock as a movie star drop greatly and was forced to take roles in more lower budget b […]

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One Touch Of Venus

One Touch Of Venus All men today should behold the exquisite example of womanhood that was Ava Gardner, who with her beauty, smile, and charm had the ability onscreen to stir men within their soul and not just their loins as with so many of the loose, cheap starlets of today, and also possessed a […]

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Our Man Flint

Our Man Flint The spy spoof genre has produced quite a few well received items, from the masterfully insane direct spoof of the Bond films in 1967’s Casino Royale to the late 90s variations as seen mainly in the Austin Powers films. In 1966, the first of two films in what is sort of a […]

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Out Of The Dark

Out Of The Dark Back in the 80s, a LOT of low-budget filmmakers tried to do their version of the All-American slasher film, and most of them failed because of a pretentious attitude and / or they didn’t have the balls to push the genre as far as it could go. Thankfully, this 1989 entry […]

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Outsiders

Outsiders Ensemble films featuring a cast of unknowns for which all or most of them went on to become major stars (and Hollywood players) are almost always fondly remembered, although they can be few and far between (American Graffiti, Fast Times) while other films that are openly acknowledged as being classics still saw their cast […]

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Oz: The Great And Powerful

Oz: The Great And Powerful The 1939 film adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz (otherwise known as The Wizard Of Oz) remains arguably the most popular and iconic movie ever made to this day, so much so that the joke is still on the literary legacy of Baum himself, since he […]

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Panic Room

Panic Room You know, it can be nice to see that a top-notch, A-list director like David (Fight Club) Fincher can actually ADMIT that a film he is taking on is something of a b-movie quality, as he did with this 2002 release, but then the film itself winds up coming undone with a ridiculous, […]

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Parenthood

Parenthood If there’s anything that one can give Ron Howard credit for, it’s his willingness to work in different genres without being pigeonholed in any one of them in particular, whether it be sci-fi (Cocoon), action (Backdraft), thriller (Ransom), or drama (Beautiful Mind). Here he takes on an ensemble comedy-drama about the lives of the […]